[Meaning ones] able to deceive.[1]Candidus [writes]: "having picked out the more difficult men and assigned public [monies?] to them he persuaded them as a result of this even to yield to the governors of the provinces".[2]

[1] From the scholia to Aristophanes, Birds 539, where the headword phrase (accusative plural) occurs. See also, in general, chi 16, chi 18, chi 19.
[2] Gaisford connected this material with Cassius Dio 73.17.1, the L.Vespronius Candidus who features in the imperial machinations of 193 CE (i.e. no colon here, but rather include the name in the quotation); however, as Adler says, it is perhaps better regarded as an overlooked fragment of Candidus the Isaurian historian of the fifth century CE, FGrH 748 (for whom cf. chi 245).